SUPPORT GROUPS

March 18, 2008 - 9:00 pm

The Barbara Greenspun WomensCare Center of Excellence offers a multiple sclerosis support group at 7 p.m. the third Wednesday of each month at 100 N. Green Valley Parkway, Suite 330, Henderson (616-4900).

The Children’s Sickle Cell Support Group meets the third Wednesday of the month at 5 p.m. at Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada, 3196 S. Maryland Parkway, Suite 400 (735-8434).

An Alzheimer’s disease caregivers support group meets at 9 a.m. Wednesdays at Community Church of Henderson, 360 E. Horizon Drive (565-8563).

Nathan Adelson Hospice, 4131 Swenson St., offers an east side adult bereavement support group at 5 p.m. Wednesdays (796-3167).

Journey through Loss and Grief, a nondenominational bereavement support group for adults, meets at 4 p.m. Wednesdays at the Jewish Family Service Agency, 4794 S. Eastern Ave., Suite C (732-0304).

Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance of Southern Nevada has free support meetings at 6 p.m. Wednesdays at Southern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services, 6161 W. Charleston Blvd., Building 1, for diagnosed individuals (adults of all ages and adolescents), parents, family and friends (255-4003).

Introduction to Al-Anon for Newcomers meetings are at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays, followed by regular Al-Anon meetings at 7 on the second floor at Findlay Cadillac, 993 Auto Show Drive, Henderson (436-0825).

Business Debtors Anonymous, a 12-step meeting for self-employed people with financial/business-related problems, meets at 6:30 p.m. Wednesdays at First Church of Religious Science, 1420 E. Harmon Ave., Room 5 (866-6682).

Us TOO, a prostate cancer support group, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday in the auditorium of the Nevada Cancer Institute, 10441 W. Twain Ave. The speaker will be Dr. Matthew D. Galsky, who will discuss "Chemotherapy for Advanced Prostate Cancer" (227-8028).

The Nevada Childhood Cancer Foundation, 6070 S. Eastern Ave., Suite 200, offers an adolescent support group the third Thursday of each month at 3:30 p.m. for those 12 to 17 years old who are coping with a critical illness (735-8434).

The Fibromyalgia Friends Support Group will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the main classroom at the Barbara Greenspun WomensCare Center of Excellence, 100 N. Green Valley Parkway, Henderson (897-9326, 897-7388).

The Holocaust Survivors Group meets at 11 a.m. the first and third Thursday of each month at the Jewish Family Service Agency, 4794 S. Eastern Ave., Suite C (732-0304).

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